Karen Burgman
Love's Pure Light
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Karen Burgman skillfully brings well-loved Christmas hymns to life with her own piano arrangements in various styles from classical to blues, from contemplative to jubilant.
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- 1 O Come, Let Us Adore Him / Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
- 2 Joy To The World
- 3 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Angels We Have Heard On High
- 4 O Holy Night
- 5 Little Drummer Boy
- 6 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- 7 Away In A Manger
- 8 We Three Kings
- 9 O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- 10 Mary, Did You Know
- 11 Go, Tell It On The Mountain
- 12 One Small Child
- 13 Emmanuel
- 14 Silent Night
- 15 O Come, All Ye Faithful
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Karen P. Burgman, pianist, graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory in May 2005 with a Bachelor of Music degree in performance. She has performed as a soloist in venues such as Jordan Hall, MA, Toronto Center for the Performing Arts, and Reith Recital Hall, Indiana, and she has accompanied in venues such as Carnegie Hall, New York, Jordan Hall, MA, and the Toronto Center for the Performing Arts where she performed works commissioned in her honor. She has premiered other works, including the U.S.A. premier of “Five Short Preludes” by Anthony Hopkins. Karen has also performed on early pianos at both the Finchcocks Estate Piano Collection in England and the Frederick Early Piano Collection in Massachusetts. Her principal teachers and mentors include Sandra Carlock, Sanford Margolis, Stephen Moore, Peter Slowik, Joseph Ohrt, and James Howsmon.
A frequent recitalist in Bucks County, Ms. Burgman soloed with the Bucks County Symphony Orchestra as a first place winner of the Youth Concerto Competition. Her debut CD, a collection of improvisations on hymns in various styles, was released in August 2002, and her new Christmas CD of improvisations will be released in November, 2007. Karen has also been recognized for her continued work in the area of music therapy and autism; she spent time studying an innovative approach to piano playing and autism in Warsaw, Poland in 2004. Karen was also featured on Channel 10 NBC, in December 2005 in Philadelphia, performing on the touring “Red Piano.”
A committed chamber musician, Ms. Burgman was a semi-finalist in the National Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2004. She was also the recipient of the Steinway Scholarship to study at the Credo Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2004, where she now continues to coach chamber ensembles. Karen received the distinguished Louis and Annette Kaufman prize at Oberlin for excellence in chamber music. She remains active as a collaborative pianist, and she received the Faculty’s Choice Award for best accompanist at Oberlin for both vocalists and instrumentalists in 2005. Karen also won first place accompanying awards in Toronto and in Virginia Beach.
Ms. Burgman has performed in master classes at the Juilliard School, New York City, and at Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. She is working towards certification in Eurhythmics, having studied at both Juilliard and at Oberlin. She has studied choral conducting at Westminster Choir College and Oberlin.
As a violinist, Karen served as concertmistress of the Philadelphia Sinfonia II, including their concert tour to the Netherlands and Belgium. She also performed with “Strings in Motion” at the White House. As a choral singer, she sang with the Central Bucks West High School Choir at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, as well as at various A.C.D.A. conventions and choral festivals.
After graduating from Oberlin, Ms. Burgman served as the Artist-in-Residence for the Steinway Dealer, Jacobs Music, in Philadelphia and in Lawrenceville. Currently, in addition to serving as the Artistic Director and Conductor for “Sola Gratia Musicians” in Hatfield, PA, she continues to perform as a soloist and collaborator, maintains a private teaching studio at the Hilltown Creative Arts Academy, directs the Hilltown “Cantabile Concert Series” through the Hilltown Creative Arts Academy, she continues to serve as primary musical arranger on the creative team for the musical “Amazing Grace: The True Story,” and she is a current recording artist of “Lifespring Music, LLC.” She resides with her husband, Michael, in North Wales, PA.